People take their religious God for granted are not even aware ‘what God supposed to be in actuality.+

Why different religions have different ideas of Gods. There is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality to realize God in truth, which is hidden by ignorance. Belief in the religious Gods keeps the Soul, the ‘Self’ in the cage of ignorance. 

Seeker of truth has to discard the idea of personal God because God in actuality is impersonal. In spirituality the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

God has no gender because God is formless, timeless and spaceless existence. The male /female Gods are religious Gods. The religious Gods are not God in truth.

Without realizing God in truth what is the use of praying and worshipping the religious Gods, which is not God in truth.

God is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny God because God is the very essence of the one who denies God. God is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs.

God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness and intelligence, which is beyond the form, time, and space. 

The quest for truth does not begin with God, God has to be proved, not assumed. People take their religious God for granted are not even aware ‘what God supposed to be in actuality.

Has it ever struck religious believers to doubt whether their religion is true? Religious never use their reason because they start and conclude that their religion alone is true because they never question.

Theological philosophers say God is a perfect being, but they have never known God, never proved his existence; hence their ascription of perfection to God is purely self-imagined. 

If we have to test truth their religion in the next world then there is no proof, so the religious doctrines have no value. The seeker of truth need not follow the religious doctrines, which are based on religious propagated myth.

For mysticism or religion, one can interpret texts as he likes, in whatever way that pleases him, he simply imagine away.

It is impossible to prove the existence of a religious God by any reasoning: one can only believe in the existence of belief based Gods. 

Yoga and mysticism are primitive things which appealed in the past to early races; now they indicate undeveloped mind when they are taken for truth!

Every founder of the diverse castes of Hinduism concocted their own idea of Gods and goddesses introduced and the mythological stories and built monasteries and temples to have their own cult.

In Yajurveda God is Spirit has not Pratima’ (idol). God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. The idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Rig Veda says never accept another God in place of the neither Atman nor worship other than the Atman?

So, it proves all God and goddesses introduced by the different founders of Hinduism are not God in truth and worship of such Gods and Goddesses are barred by Vedas. Which Hindus hold as sacred? 

According to their imagination, is the paradise or heaven of religious believers? But where people have got a little thinking capacity, they begin to disbelieve through the contradictions of various contending orthodox claims and descriptions.

Mystics see visions of gods and goddesses and adapts according to their own inherited conditioning.

Many Gurus of the east and west will preach that all is yourself without knowing ‘what is the ‘Self in actuality. , but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, none can prove it. Sage Sankara’s wisdom is a rational proof so that you arrive at realizing the truth hidden by the universe; all the gurus of the east and west is mere imagination parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture.

People dwelling in India belonged to different castes and communities of Hinduism, worshipped different Gods, and practiced different rites.

The belief of individualized God, heaven, hell, paradise, sin, karma, rebirth, and reincarnation are a myth propagated by the religion.  Religious myths built on holding the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.

Self-realization is very much necessary to realize the religious propagated Gods based on blind belief, heaven, hell, paradise, sin, karma, rebirth, and reincarnation are a myth.

God is impersonal:- 

Self is not you. The Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Identifying the Self as 'you' is a great error. The Soul, the Self is God in truth. God in truth is impersonal. 

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as it is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described, because description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

Sage Sankara’s whole teaching can be summed up in one sentence, ‘There is nothing else but Brahman (Atman or consciousness). Sage Sankara says that the Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge, and Absolute awareness are real. The universe is not real. Sage Sankara says that Brahma and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as the universe containing many different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Self is real; the universe is but passing appearances.

In fact, Sage Sankara states a paradox- the world is and is not. It is neither real nor unreal. It leads us to recognize the existence of Maya (illusion). He thinks that the world is illusory from one perspective and from the second it is nothing but Brahman (God), itself in manifestation. This apparent world is Maya (universe) and has its basis in Brahman, the Eternal. It looks as real. It has names and forms and actually, it is not real In the light of true knowledge, it disappears and Self-alone shines as real. However, Sage  Sankara's Mayavada has not been accepted by many preachers and philosophers.

When Sage Sankara says clearly, the universe is not real. He says that Brahman and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as many in different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Soul, the Self is Real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances, then it indicates the form (universe) is unreal and the formless soul (consciousness) is real.  Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing exist other than Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.

The seeker of truth should not be satisfied with religion and yoga, which are meant for the ignorant populace but inquire into the world around you, which you can see. 

Deeper inquiry revels it is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it going? Thus, you follow up your inquiry into what you can lay hands on. How can you inquire into Atma which you cannot see? So first we deal with the known and seen, this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.  Atman or Brahman or God are things you can never see. So do not inquire into them.

Ish Upanishad declares: ~ “Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide. 

Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death. This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be ones, own master?

Remember, the Self is not you but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Until you hold ‘Self’ as you will remain in ignorance. You are the false self within the dualistic illusion (Maya).

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is hidden by the dualistic illusion (I). It is hidden by the dualistic illusion because the dualistic illusion is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

You and your experience of the world is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The nature of the Soul is awareness.

Realize what God supposed to be in actuality according to your own holy books. 

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth. Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth, is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone, is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.

People are not aware that there is no religious God that can exist, apart from consciousness.

Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the  Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Yajur Veda also says:~  God has no image and His name is Holy.  (32.3)”

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~  God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself’.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material (Gita 14.27)

The Upanishads say in effect that: ~ If you believe that the Soul is one and God (Brahman) is another you cannot understand Truth.

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."

Lord Krishna says Ch. V:~ “Those who know the ‘Self’ in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

Sage Sankara said: ~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Thus, by worshiping a religious God and following religion, studying scripters are meant for those who are incapable of realizing the truth of their true existence.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar